Move to hold Tony Blair to account over Iraq defeated by 369 votes

Labour MPs turn out in force to defeat Alex Salmond’s motion, accusing him of ‘an attempt to pillory and scapegoat one individual’

Labour MPs turned out in force to help defeat a parliamentary motion calling for Tony Blair to be held to account for allegedly misleading parliament over the Iraq war by 439 votes to 70 on Wednesday, after an occasionally angry debate.